北京師范大學考博英語summary練習材料

1、1新概念英語第 4 冊 25——48 課均有 summary 聯(lián)系，新概念英語 4 教師用書上有答案 復習時可參考練習To write your summary, first scan the document you are summarizing to get an overall impression.Then read it carefully, highlighting or underlining the most

2、significant information.You will want to especially pay close attention to the first and last sentence of each paragraph. Usually the first sentence is the topic sentence and the last a summary of the paragraph so they

3、will have the most important ideas.The First Sentence:An easy way to begin writing a summary is to refer to the author and what they have written about.A general format for the first sentence is as follows:First Sentence

4、 ExamplesIn his/her/the article {“Article name,”} {Author’s name} + {primary verb} + {main idea}.In his/her/the article {“Article name,”} {Author’s name} + {primary verb} + {main idea}.3must use a sentence or phrase from

5、 the original text, make sure that it is put within quotation marks (“ “). Also remember that you are just restating what is expressed in the text; you should NOT be adding any of your own opinions.Longer Summaries? Mo

6、st summaries will be quite short. But if you are writing a longer summary you can add some phrases like the ones below.? The author goes on to say that ...? The article (author) further states that ...? (Author’s last n

7、ame) also believes that…? (Author’s last name) concludes that…? No matter what format you choose to use, stating the main purpose of the article in the first couple of sentences is very important if you want to write a s

8、uccessful summary.? After you have written this you can try to write a summary of each paragraph. If the article you are summarizing is written well this should be easy to do. It will be harder if the paragraph does no